[WSBAPT] Odds of Appointing PR with a 40-yr-old felony conviction

[Lewis, Amy C.]

Could you do an Adjudication of Testacy and Heirship or do you have other issues that will require appointment of a PR?


Amy Lewis, Attorney

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Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2020 12:27 PM
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Subject: [WSBAPT] Odds of Appointing PR with a 40-yr-old felony conviction

Dear Listmates:

I'm trying to advise a client on whether the court could approve his appointment as PR.  He has a felony conviction, robbery with fire arm, that goes back to when he was 17 in 1979, but tried and convicted as an adult.  He was paroled in 1983, and received a final discharge restoring all civil rights except right to own a gun in 1993.

This is an intestate estate, with the only beneficiaries being two brothers (children of decedent).  Both brothers have felony convictions (the other brother was a felony drug charge). .  The brother who is not my client wants his brother to act as PR knowing of the robbery conviction  and will decline to act and consent.    The only asset of the estate if a home in the Seattle area, which will be sold and the proceeds divided between the two brothers.

My question whether the court will appoint my client as a PR under these circumstances.  The statute does address whether the court has any discretion in appointing a PR with a felony conviction.  Is it worth attempting to get the court to appoint, or should I just get an independent PR to act?


Jeanne J. Dawes
Attorney at Law
Gore & Grewe, P.S.
103 E. Indiana Avenue, Suite A
Spokane, WA 99207-2317
Voice:  509-326-7500
Fax:      509-326-7503
jjdawes at goregrewe.com<mailto:jjdawes at goregrewe.com>
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